Jeffrey Allan Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Allan Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
R obert F ox . Science without Frontiers
Despite being relatively short (an introduction, three chapters, and a brief epilogue), Robert Fox’s Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940, is a wide-ranging and very readable contribution to the growing literature on the interplay between nationalism and internationalism (or as phrased here, cosmopolitanism) in the modern scientific enterprise. The special focus here is the problem …
Frontline and Factory
The First World War is often called the ‘chemists’ war’. But few realise precisely how, or the extent to which modern chemistry became a significant factor in the struggle, and would be in turn deeply shaped by it. Gathering momentum at first, by 1916, success in applying scientific knowledge to ‘frontline and factory’ became a measure of a nation’s capacity to win an industrial war. In the end, the titanic contest was won in large part through t…
Master Mind
Reviewed by Jeffrey Allan Johnson Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare. By Daniel Charles. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. xvii+313. $24.95. Fritz Haber's life could be made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie, a Faustian epic played out against the background of some of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century, from the First World War to the Holocaust: a young German-J…
Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science. Diana Kormos Barkan
Governing Ideas
Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939
Flammable Material
Fritz Haber, 1868-1934
Surviving the Swastika
Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, the prestigious forerunner of the Max Planck Society. Home to over twenty Nobel-prize winning scientists, the Society was at the forefront of scientific advance in the first half of the twentieth century. Surprisingly, the Society not only survived National Socialism, but often thrived. …
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Surviving the Swastika
Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, the prestigious forerunner of the Max Planck Society. Home to over twenty Nobel-prize winning scientists, the Society was at the forefront of scientific advance in the first half of the twentieth century. Surprisingly, the Society not only survived National Socialism, but often thrived. …
Flammable Material
Fritz Haber, 1868-1934
Governing Ideas
Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939
Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science. Diana Kormos Barkan
Frontline and Factory
The First World War is often called the ‘chemists’ war’. But few realise precisely how, or the extent to which modern chemistry became a significant factor in the struggle, and would be in turn deeply shaped by it. Gathering momentum at first, by 1916, success in applying scientific knowledge to ‘frontline and factory’ became a measure of a nation’s capacity to win an industrial war. In the end, the titanic contest was won in large part through t…
Master Mind
Reviewed by Jeffrey Allan Johnson Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare. By Daniel Charles. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. xvii+313. $24.95. Fritz Haber's life could be made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie, a Faustian epic played out against the background of some of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century, from the First World War to the Holocaust: a young German-J…
R obert F ox . Science without Frontiers
Despite being relatively short (an introduction, three chapters, and a brief epilogue), Robert Fox’s Science without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940, is a wide-ranging and very readable contribution to the growing literature on the interplay between nationalism and internationalism (or as phrased here, cosmopolitanism) in the modern scientific enterprise. The special focus here is the problem …
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